Jose Ramirez and Richard Commey are each former world champions, each all-action in type and each decided to return to the highest degree of the game.
However solely considered one of them can.
That can be determined once they struggle on the Save Mart Area in Fresno, reside on Sky Sports activities within the early hours of Sunday morning.
“He is skilled,” Ramirez instructed Sky Sports activities. “He is coming in very motivated. That is motivates me too.
“What motivates me a lot is the thrill that I carry to boxing followers. They love my type of boxing. They love boxers like myself who respect the game, who respect every part concerning the sport, who go on the market and undoubtedly present all the abilities and so they go away all their coronary heart inside that ring.
“World titles, legacy, I really feel like there’s a lot that I’ve but to do within the sport and I need to do within the sport. These objectives that I’ve for myself are a part of my motivation every single day.”
Ghana’s Commey is aware of that at this stage of his profession defeat to Ramirez would finish his ambitions of returning to title class.
“It is all about profitable this struggle,” he mentioned. “I will give my all and this struggle actually means quite a bit. It means quite a bit for me, I’ve obtained to go in there and do what I’ve obtained to do.”
After shedding his IBF light-weight title to Teofimo Lopez, Commey additionally went the gap with the nice Vasiliy Lomachenko.
For both man defeat tonight can be disastrous (Photographs: Mikey Williams/Prime Rank)
He subsequently moved as much as 140lbs, however nonetheless took a tricky struggle there, drawing with Jose Pedraza.
“I believed I ought to have received that struggle. I believed I obtained it. It’s what it’s. Issues occur for a motive,” he mentioned.
Commey believes these experiences have nonetheless made him a greater fighter.
“Loma, his footwork could be very nice,” Commey mentioned. “He strikes in a means you do not count on him to take action he sort of makes it somewhat bit tough.
“I ought to have performed a lot better [but] he is good.”
Now Teofimo Lopez has moved as much as 140lbs too, Commey would relish a rematch.
“If I had the possibility to struggle with him once more, I might,” he mentioned. “I might have performed rather more than that.
“We’re each at 140lbs and it is going to be one thing else, it is going to be nice.”
Ramirez equally has a defeat in his previous that he needs to avenge. He misplaced his unified WBC and WBO light-weight belts to Josh Taylor of their undisputed championship struggle in 2021.
“There was just a few small errors that I made in the course of the struggle, within the sixth and seventh spherical, that I felt price me the struggle,” Ramirez instructed Sky Sports activities.
Jose Ramirez believes he would beat Josh Taylor in a rematch
Taylor knocked him down in these rounds. However Ramirez is adamant: “The higher man that day received, not essentially the higher general fighter.”
He mentioned: “If I hadn’t made the error to indicate a lot respect to him and the referee I really feel like I would not have gotten caught with that uppercut. It wasn’t simply that spherical that I misplaced, it took me about two rounds to get my legs underneath me and it additionally motivated him to get his second wind.”
To get his second likelihood with Taylor, Ramirez will search to grow to be the necessary challenger for the WBO title the Scotsman holds.
“Within the first 5 rounds I used to be beginning to take him to the ropes, I used to be exhibiting my bodily power,” Ramirez mentioned. “I might see by his physique language that I used to be breaking him down.
“I am that beast that goes on the market and could be very decided to win,” he continued. “That struggle within the close to future will in all probability occur.”
That is one of many the explanation why, in entrance of his hometown followers in a packed enviornment tonight, Ramirez must win.
Each males, as Commey says, have to present their all.
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